As 1936 opens, Germany stands at the center of a world still defined by the Weltkrieg's outcome — powerful, but dangerously overstretched and surrounded by threats from every direction: France's rising syndicalist Internationale, the remnants of the old Entente, an unbroken Russia, and an unrepentant Japan. Meanwhile, Germany's allies in Constantinople and Vienna have grown distant, and the American colossus is stumbling. Seventeen years of uneasy peace have calcified into routine — but a single spark, falling in the right place, could reignite everything. An alternate history grand strategy mod for Hearts of Iron IV.